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For logistics and supply chain professionals, the "last mile" of delivering good and services to customers can make or break a business. The delivery process affects profit margins, cashflow, customer relationships, and churn yet today it is often burdened with pen & paper processes and operational drag.​

Mobile robot vendor Fetch Robotics Inc. has added two new models to its fleet of autonomous material handling vehicles for commercial and industrial environments, adding to the fast-growing market of warehouse robotics.

Members of the International Warehouse Logistics Association elected Clifford K. Otto, CEO of Saddle Creek Logistics Services, headquartered in Lakeland, Fla., as the 2017-2018 chairman during the 2017 IWLA Convention & Expo. The event was March 19-21 in Palm Springs, Calif.

In a client research brief, entitled: “Measuring Up: Why Cubic Feet Matter,” CBRE explained that large occupiers are more efficiently using warehouse and cubic space, which is resulting in increased building clearance heights, and has in turn, made measurement of cubic feet, or the “third dimension,” that much more important.

The Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) and GMéxico Transportes S.A. de C.V.(GMXT), the transportation unit of Mexico City, Mexico-based miner Grupo Mexico, announced that they have entered into an agreement in which GMXT will acquire FEC in an all-cash transaction, which is expected to close subject to satisfaction of closing conditions.